Don't Want to Be Your Monster Quotes

“We let them tell us vampires were the problem, and if we'd just get rid of them, the world would be totally better. But then they said wait, it's not really vampires, it's the Jews. And then it's not really the Jews, it's this group. Or that group. Or immigrants. Every time the world doesn't get better, they just draw a new line between who's good and an entire group of people who are suddenly 'monsters.' And we all get so scared that there's a new monster in our midst, don't we? So scared that we rush to join the side of those who would 'protect' us from the monsters that they themselves invented.
I'm just staying the stuff that hurt your mom is the same stuff that hurt my people is the same stuff that wiped out the vampires, and if you don't do anything about it, eventually that line's going to be drawn to keep you out.”
― Deke Moulton, Don't Want to Be Your Monster

“No one should have to turn themselves into an attraction so they can keep living where they've always lived.”
― Deke Moulton, Don't Want to Be Your Monster

“It was easy to get everyone on board with driving out difference when you started with something like vampires. Easy to dehumanize them, right? That's the stuff I grew up being taught - that it doesn't matter who it starts with, hate is hungry, and if you don't do something to stop it, it eats everyone.”
― Deke Moulton, Don't Want to Be Your Monster